Rodolphe Saadé, boss of the shipowner CMA CGM, "never intervened in La Provence", a regional daily which experienced a crisis around a front page on Emmanuel Macron's visit to Marseille. Journalists from the regional daily ended on Monday the strike they began on Friday in reaction to the dismissal of the publication's director, who has since been reinstated.
The affair placed the subject of press freedom at the heart of the debates. “He speaks as an industrialist, not as an editor who would request an article,” says Whynot Media head Jean-Christophe Tortora.